On Apr 15, 2014, at 3:12 PM, Chaz Cone <chaz at w4gkf.com> wrote:
> I was on 20m phone calling CQ and worked a fellow in Missouri. An hour later
> he called again and I told him that we?d already worked on 20m. He chided me
> saying that now he was mobile in a different county in Missouri and would
> count again on this band. i tried to explain that the rover concept only
> applied to GA stations, and that we would only get credit once per band. He
> assured me that I was mistaken.
>
> An hour later he called me again and, when I told him we?d already worked, he
> said that he knew that but that now he was in a different Missouri county.
> He said he was traveling throughout Missouri all day Saturday and Sunday to
> participate as a rover in the GQP.
>
> Nothing I said would disabuse him of that notion. He called me several more
> times during the weekend. Hope he did well?
The lesson here is to never argue with a station about whether you have worked
before. Just work them, log them and move one. There is NO contest that takes
off points for duplicate contacts.
Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL Mail: aa4lr at arrl.net
Web: http://boringhamradiopart.blogspot.com
Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!"
-- Wilbur Wright, 1901
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